Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor
Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor in Gig Harbor, WA, is a community-focused organization providing health and behavioral services with a specialization in serving the Latino population. It stands out for its culturally competent care and extensive network of clinics across Washington state.
The mission is to provide comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, with a focus on the Latino population. Sea Mar Community Health Centers is accredited by The Joint Commission and is a Health Center Program grantee through the HRSA.
- Offers multidisciplinary practices for personalized treatment plans, including mental health and substance abuse services.
- Operates state-licensed facilities that meet court-mandated service requirements.
- Employs a team of qualified professionals like mental health therapists and psychiatric nurse practitioners.
- Encourages family involvement in the treatment process for better outcomes.
Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor provides treatment for mental health issues and substance abuse, primarily serving underserved communities and the Latino population. Their services cater to a wide range of addiction-related issues.
- 1+ Accreditations
- 3 Conditions Treated
- Insurance Accepted
- 4 Levels of Care
- Speaks English
- 13 Therapies & Programs
- Multiple Locations
Accreditations
JCAHO
Conditions and Issues Treated
Opioid + Opiate Addiction Treatment
Addiction to prescription opioid painkillers like oxycodone and hydrocodone, and illicit opioids such as heroin, leads to potentially life-threatening withdrawal symptoms when discontinued. Opioid addiction treatment typically involves an inpatient stay at facilities like Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor to make sure they get through withdrawal safely. Treatment also includes comprehensive mental health counseling.
Dual-Diagnosis
Mental illness includes conditions such as anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. It can also happen that mental illness causes drug addiction and vice versa. Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor in Washington knows it is vital to diagnose dual diagnosis or co-occurring disorder.
Levels of Care
This center offers a variety of custom treatment tailored to individual recovery. Currently available are Aftercare Support, Drug Rehab, Dual-Diagnosis, Outpatient, with additional therapies available as listed below.
To assist with alcohol or opioid abuse, or a co-occurring condition, Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor offers an outpatient treatment program. For their rehabilitation and other services, the Washington patient will go to the treatment center, yet return home every night. After most of the program is completed, the level of mandatory participation reduces.
Treatment is just a first step in sustaining sobriety. After rehabilitation, counseling for aftercare helps the person adapt to a life without drugs. A sober living facility in Gig Harbor, job therapy, or educational assistance may be included in this service, managed by Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor. This is when a preventive strategy for relapse starts to take shape.
Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor‘s Therapies & Programs
In addiction recovery at Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor, therapy plays a significant role. This helps patients get to the root of their addiction and discover how the problems that contributed to their use can be handled better. Therapy can be performed in a group and one on one settings. The patient interacts with the therapist in a one-on-one atmosphere during individual therapy. This encourages them to reflect on the underlying addiction problems and develop ways to avoid potential future abuse.
Addiction and alcoholism affect the entire family. For this reason, family therapy is vital to a person’s recovery from addiction. In contrast to couples counseling, family therapy at Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor may include siblings, children, parents, and other significant people in the recovering person’s life. Family support is one of the most important pillars of recovery.
Many people turn to drugs and alcohol as a way of processing trauma that has affected them in the past. Trauma can include abuse, neglect, the loss of a loved one and other unpleasant incidents. Trauma therapy at Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor helps patients process trauma. It gives them the tools to deal with it in a healthier manner.
Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that focuses on eliminating specific negative thoughts such as suicidal thoughts that can potentially lead to an individual inflicting self-harm. It is useful in the treatment of patients exhibiting uncontrollable emotions, intense mood swings, and borderline personality disorders.
The term “Dialectic” means the integration of opposites. In the substance abuse context, DBT refers to accepting the patient’s addiction and working to change their thoughts and behavior. It improves life skills such as controlling the intense emotions without reacting impulsively, resolving the interpersonal conflicts effectively, and promoting awareness about self and others.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the relationship between a patient’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor aims to establish a healthy response to thoughts and feelings as an alternative to turning to drugs and alcohol. It also promotes healthy communication between addicts and those around them. It is and effective therapy for people suffering with all types of addictions.
Life skills pertain to the skill sets a person should possess to become successful in life. Examples are time management, budgeting, and social abilities. Life skills therapy highlights the fact that addiction recovery is more than just a person’s ability to go through their day-to-day without resorting to substance use in Gig Harbor, WA once they leave the facility.
It’s no surprise that diet is a crucial player in one’s well-being. What an individual puts into his or her body becomes the fuel that drives the mental and physical faculties to perform accordingly. Therefore, nutrition therapy, also known as medical nutrition therapy (MNT), guarantees that an individual is providing his or her mind and body with proper nourishment.
The right diet can improve a person’s general outlook, sleep habits, and thought processing skills. MNT also lowers the occurrence of chronic diseases such as adult-onset diabetes. Dieticians at Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor in Gig Harbor, Washington believe that nutrition therapy is the key to making significant lifestyle changes, especially when it comes to personal care.Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRTC) used products like skin patches and gum to deliver nicotine into the bloodstream of people trying to quit smoking. This helps break the habits associated with smoking. The very low doses of nicotine managed by Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Gig Harbor prevent cravings while helping people make a gradual transition to complete smoking cessation.
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Location & Contact
6659 Kimball Dr
Gig Harbor, WA 98335
Phone Number
(253) 280-9888
Additional Locations
- Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Salmon Creek in Vancouver, WA
- Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Child & Family Services in Everett, WA
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- Sea Mar Community Health Centers - Alderwood Mall Boulevard in Lynnwood, WA
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Location
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6659 Kimball Dr
Gig Harbor, WA 98335 -
(253) 280-9888
Accepts
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GenderFemale, Male
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AgeAdults (20+), Children (0-12), Teenagers
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ModalityFamily, Group, Individuals
Sea Mar Community Health Centers
Listed May 13, 2021
Updated July 25, 2024
Gig Harbor, Washington Addiction and Treatment
Washington's substance use, abuse, and addiction rates have followed the trends of the rest of the over the past years. Methamphetamine abuse is the biggest threat to Washington. Heroin-related overdoses increased by almost 450% from 2006 to 2016. 20% of all annual deaths in Washington are somehow drug and/or alcohol-related. Drugs are widely abused in Washington because they are easily trafficked in and out of the state.
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- Gig Harbor, WA (0.8 mi.)
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